People count money differently in different parts of the world [video]

I'm very interested as to who is behind wimp.com. They seem to be aggregating a lot of previously popular videos and using them as reddit linkbait. And it seems to be working, at least, it has been recently -- http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wimp.com/?metric=uv.

$ is not a generic symbol for money. Also, that video is very inaccurate, Africa for one certainly does not count in that manner all over the continent.

People count differently, but the counting methods vary across countries and areas a lot more. People who deal with money a lot also tend to count differently from normal people.

Interesting demonstration using what appears to be brand new bills (although the paper looks thicker than there is something printed on them that looks like it says "FOR GAME"), but what would be more interesting is if the method of holding and counting is based on the size, shape, paper quality, age, and condition of the bills.

I tried to remember how I count them, then realised that I've never had a wad of bills.

Not hacker news